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The book "The Bethlehem housed. Whim of a patron," Isabel Gómez de Rueda, published by Editum.

Publications Service of the University of Murcia, is presented as the final publication of one of the best known works of Murcia sculptor Francisco housed.

The work, sponsored also by Seneca Foundation Cajamurcia, Footprints Project and Salzillo Museum Foundation, will be presented tomorrow, Friday, February 13 by the Rector of the University of Murcia José Antonio Cobacho; Cristóbal Belda Navarro, Project "Footprints" of Cajamurcia and Professor of Art History Foundation of the University of Murcia and Maria Teresa Martín Torres, director of Salzillo Museum, and by the author of the work, at 19.30 am in the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Arts.

Isabel Gomez takes a documented tour of the historic environment of the era in which it was carried out this work, analyzing the scenarios that inspired Salzillo and iconographic sources and providing a thorough review of the tables that comprise it, and a complete catalog of each of the 556 figures that make up this work, with figures that summarize in just a foot high, many of the virtues that he brought to his work the Murcia sculptor.

The Bethlehem passed through many vicissitudes and various locations until 1956 to its final location, the current Salzillo Museum.

It was in the 90s, with the beginning of the restoration of funds Salzillo Museum as he could finally show all values, as stresses the author in the preface of the book, "The modesty of the material could not hide the greatness of the work ".

Studies and restoration to which he was subjected revealed valuable details and the nature of its splendid colors, the technique used, its chronology or individual interventions workshop housed.

Isabel Gomez in the book proposes a comprehensive tour of the iconographic sources that inspired many of the figures, addressing the incidence customs and daily life of the late eighteenth Murcia.

Definitely a work that will provide valuable updates on this work whose contemplation treasures, as the author says of the work, "whole view of reality torn" our land at that time, attended the Royal Society and in which "the earthly and the divine hand in hand to attend equally to the message of Birth".

Source: UMU